[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 2/5/2019

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu May 2 18:30:27 CEST 2019


Minutes 2 May 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* RC2 status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Conferences
* Opens


Participants:
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* RedHat


Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates, RC3 date pushed to Friday, 3 May:
  * RC3: *Friday, 3 May*
  * RC4: Wednesday, 8 May
  * Release: Friday, 10 May

  * May 1-4 inclusive is holiday in PRC, Intel testing won't be
    available during that time

* v19.08 dates:
  * Proposal/V1               Monday 03 June   2019  
  * Integration/Merge/RC1     Monday 01 July   2019  
  * Release                   Thurs  01 August 2019

  * Schedule updated on roadmap page:
    https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/

* v19.11 proposed dates, *please comment*,
  * Proposal/V1               Friday 06 September 2019
  * Integration/Merge/RC1     Friday 11 October   2019
  * Release                   Friday 08 November  2019

  * Constrains:
    * PRC holidays on October 1-7 inclusive, rc1 shouldn't overlap with it
    * US DPDK Summit on mid November, better to have release before summit


RC2 status
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* RC2 Intel test results looks good, no major issue detected


Subtrees
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* main
  * RCU library is merged
  * There is a avx512 related defect waiting
  * There are more fixes to merge

* next-net
  * A few fixes, no major issue, will be ready for rc3

* next-virtio
  * No patches for rc3

* next-crypto
  * pulled into main repository yesterday
  * There are a few more fixes from Bruce

* next-eventdev
  * 2 patches merged directly into main repo

* next-pipeline
* next-qos
  * No update, we need attendance from maintainer

* Stable trees
  * 18.11.2 is in progress


OvS
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* For OvS testing on DPDK Community Lab, which branch to test leaning to:
  DPDK: "master" branch,
  OvS: "dpdk-latest" branch which will be rebased monthly on "master" branch

* Tested 17.11.6-rc1 (with OvS 2.10 & 2.9), no issues found so far


Conferences
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* DPDK Userspace summit: DPDK Userspace · Sept. 19-20, 2019
  https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-userspace-bordeaux/
  * CFP Opens: Monday, April 29
  * CFP Closes: Friday, May 24


Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree

* There is a demand on backporting driver features into stable releases,
  should discuss more with community


DPDK Release Status Meetings
============================

The DPDK Release Status Meeting is intended for DPDK Committers to discuss
the status of the master tree and sub-trees, and for project managers to
track progress or milestone dates.

The meeting occurs on Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. If you wish to attend just
send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>" for the invite.


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